Word: love-sick
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...LOVE-SICK MAN is a helpless ninny, marriage is a trap baited with blackmail, the jester is bound to end up with his head on the chopping block--quite a few gloomy aphorisms might be gleaned from The Yeomen of the Guard. If the show's music--with its operatic flourishes--is among Arthur Sullivan's grandest, the libretto certainly represents W.S. Gilbert at his most despondent...
...inspiration passed from father to son was passed from teacher to student. Mr. Doig liked to teach us old union songs. He had an awful voice, but he enjoyed the songs and he was not ashamed to sing out loud even though he sounded like a love-sick bullfrog. He would stand up on his chair and lead his abashed students in the chorus of "Solidarity Forever" and "We Shall Not Be Moved...
...tells the story of 19-year-old Bernard Chanticleer, son of the curator of pornography at the New York Public Library. In a hurry to achieve manhood in the approved way, young Bernard must choose between the love-sick squarehead who works with him and a sadistic nymphomaniac go-go dancer who doubles as a non-speaking actress in an off-Broadway play. In the end, of course, the right girl wins...
While Constancy's mother (Miranda Samples) attempts to connect her love-sick daughter with Dr. Daly, one love approaches fulfillment: Alexis (H. Thomas Bell), son of Sir Marmaduke, will soon wed Alien (Carolyn W. Kimball). But Alexis, cursed with ideas, thinks indiscriminate and widespread marriage will bring all earthly joys and accordingly engages a respectable family sorcerer (Peter Skolnik) to enamour the villagers of each other. The results are lively Gilbert and Sullivan...
...every element of character, previous education, and political tendency." His independence of thought showed through again in a later speech on foreign relations: "But, acting in a public capacity, with the high responsibilities resulting from the great interests dependent upon my decision, I cannot yield to the wishes of love-sick patriots, or the visions of teeming enthusiasts." Poor Josiah! He had no power in the House, but never weighed decisions for political expediency. His personal standards determined his vote...